McVerry: Government’s homeless plan not working

The Government must concede that its strategy to reduce homelessness is not working, according to leading campaigner Fr Peter McVerry. He said society should be outraged at the image which emerged last week of a homeless five-year-old eating his dinner off cardboard on a street in Dublin.

“We should be absolutely outraged at that,” he said. “But that’s yesterday’s news. And we’ve forgotten about it already. We move on. Things become normalised. What really annoys me is that the Government keeps saying that its policy is working, and that we have to give them more time.